baby stuff - can't wait to find out what a friend is having this week so I can knit pink or blue lol. So in the meantime I am knitting some bits and pieces that will come in handy for anyone having a baby :)

Am really REALLY tickled pink with his latest project . I have always wanted a garden bench , my parents had one and it was nice to sit out there in the sunshine. The ones I really liked had to be the expensive ones - over £200 each so thought better of it.

Our lovely neighbour brought the dude home some stripped down pallets which were going to be scrapped and THIS is the result.

All that is needed now is for it to be stained and me to make a detatchable seat pad

Thursday, 14 July 2011

Many moons ago I bought some semi-circular boxes - you open them up and discover they have a little mirror in the lid and a large and two small compartments. Fabulous jewellery boxes. I must have bought a few dozen of them. With almost being in the new room I decided now was the time to decorate them.

There is a lot of potential there :). I have about six here at the moment - any others are in a bag in the loft lol

I have been moving my stash up since my last post - still a few bits to go then the debris from the dining room and the puter desks gone through and mainly binned - when that is finished I can get the dining room decorated and the table and chairs put in WOOOHOOOOO

So the room so far is looking lush - I keep walking into the middle of it and grinning - cant wait to get crafting in there (see - being really good and NOT getting side tracked from the tidy up by making things)

Boxes of 'bits' to be sorted

I love this 12 drawer trolley from Costco

Large plastic storage boxes and the drawers have come in handy as well

The drawers were actually 2 large and 2 small drawers and I had 4 left (gave away a couple to someone and the dude has one in the shed lol) to save floor space I built them up double sized

The smaller plastic storage box on top (left side) has punches, lots and lots of punches

Standing at the door looking in - even the cupboards are full now and the pigeon holes are fuller.

Thinking of getting one of the hardboard pasting tables out of B & M for a tenner to use as a mega crafting table for the time being - will be able to get a knitting machine on it :) I have a metal puter desk thing which is going in there too - idea for when the lappy goes up there and a new printer (psst - it would be really really nice to get a robo up there too ) can also use it when using the sewing machine.

I havent shown pics of the other side of the room - there are cardboard boxes of Family Tree stuff which is going to be packed into the spare plastic storage ones.

Woohoo - or so I thought when I found a twisted easel template on UKS - BUT it was in Studio format. So I decided that now was the time to really get my act together and design stuff myself in GSD format - and this was the result . I made it up quickly to see that it worked ok - there are various mats and 'stops' for it

Sunday, 29 May 2011

The top one is using a lacy circle mat by Silene I believe from UKS and the tulip circles from Angela Burke from CUP onto a Kanban card blank I had and a sentiment from a kanban sheet which just blended in with it all

the 2nd one is on a lovely card blank - the Venetian Mask and mat design by Clive Coulter and bought from CUP - the images can be resized which is an added bonus

Wednesday, 11 May 2011

--- but been a tad under the weather - or it could be meds needing balanced. Anyhooooo - I havent been slacking - got my act together and have printed off some CUP downloads that I have been buying over the last wee while. Really pleased with the results

Tuesday, 3 May 2011

We nipped over to Country Baskets this afternoon - not all that much compared to previous visits, but still luvverly none the less. Somehow or other we ended up buying some things with cupcakes on them - hmmmm I wonder who they are for lol

Sunday, 1 May 2011

Beads bought in pound shop as well - 10 bottles of seeds beads in various colours and a reel of 'thread' - which I didnt use lol - I prefer using NYMO. I did buy several sets of these beads , made up the ropes this last week or so and because my findings arrived today have sat watching TV finishing them off. Pretty good value - 2 bottles make 3 bracelets!

The first two fully finished - have sort of lost count how many I actually made lol

Saturday, 30 April 2011

So today I faffed about and made a set for myself - adding some jump rings , silver spacers a lobster clasp and a toggle fastening - which arrived in the post today from several ebay shops.- and this is the finished result

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About Me

Ok, I don't work, mainly because of problems caused by stupid asthma - people's perfumes etc can trigger a terrifying reaction and put me in hospital :( - but it could be worse.
I am married to Mr Dude (aka Paul) who allows me to be myself and craft to my heart's content.
So what crafts??? Mainly cardmaking and scrapbooking, but I also knit, sew, crochet and cross stitch. I also bake.
I am very lucky in the fact that I live near enough the Kanban outlet in Shipley to be able to go and choose boxes of their terrific products. I am also blessed in the fact that I have some pretty amazing friends, some I have met and others only online.
Where do I get my inspiration from? Watching Create and Craft, seeing new styles of cards on Joanna Sheen's forum and finding out how to do them, and with UK Scrappers - where I am in the Girls with Stash Team, members of the Green Buttons, the weekly challenges for points makes me think out the box sometimes with my layouts.
We have been on some adventures (life itself is a great one!) so am slowly making a scrapbook of them